ICMAT Newsletter #15 - 2024
April at ICMAT
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Hello!
Here is our 15th ICMAT monthly newsletter, which includes the latest news and forthcoming activities related to the Institute and its members.
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ICMAT launches a new mathematical collaboration program between Spain and Latin America
Javier Aramayona, ICMAT director, during the presentation of the new program / Image: ICMAT
The new ICMAT program, "Enhancing mathematical bridges between Spain and Latin America," is already underway. It's a research platform aimed at facilitating knowledge exchange among researchers from Spain and Latin America, supporting and fostering the development of new generations. Leading the initiative are ICMAT and the Institute of the Mathematical Sciences of the Americas (IMSA) at the University of Miami.
The program was officially launched on 24 April with a presentation event held at ICMAT. Speakers included José María Martell, Vice President of Scientific and Technical Research at CSIC; Javier Aramayona, Director of ICMAT; Ludmil Katzarkov, Director of IMSA (University of Miami); and Yuri Tschinkel, Director of Mathematical and Physical Sciences at the Simons Foundation.
One of the initial actions is an exchange program set to begin in 2025. This program will allow researchers from Latin America to visit ICMAT and facilitate participation of young researchers from the region in ICMAT's training programs, both doctoral and postdoctoral. Additionally, conferences and congresses will be organized in collaboration with IMSA.
This is one of the new initiatives that ICMAT is launching thanks to its recent achievement, for the fourth time, of accreditation as a "Severo Ochoa" Center of Excellence, awarded by the Ministry of Science, Innovation, and Universities.
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Antonio Córdoba (ICMAT-UAM) receives the Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer Prize 2024
Antonio Córdoba accepting his award / Image: Institut d’Estudis Catalans
The Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer Foundation has awarded its 2024 International Mathematical Research Prize to the monograph "Suprematism in Harmonic Analysis" by Antonio Córdoba, emeritus professor at the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM) and member of the ICMAT. This prize carries a cash award of €15,000 and includes the publication of the monograph in the 'Progress in Mathematics' collection by Birkhäuser.
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Watch Joan Bagaria's talk "The Higher Infinite and its Role in Mathematics"
Joan Bagaria, a specialist in mathematical logic and set theory, delivered the talk "The Higher Infinite and its Role in Mathematics." Image: CC
Joan Bagaria, an ICREA research professor at the Universitat de Barcelona (UB) and a specialist in mathematical logic and set theory, was the speaker at the mathematics colloquium, jointly organized by ICMAT and the universities Autónoma de Madrid, Complutense de Madrid, and Carlos III de Madrid. It took place on 15 April, at the Degree Hall of the Padre Soler Building on the Leganés Campus of Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. The recording of the event is available at this link.
In his talk, titled "The Higher Infinite and its Role in Mathematics," Bagaria focused on those large cardinal infinities whose existence cannot be proven within the standard ZFC (Zermelo-Fraenkel with Choice) axiomatic system of set theory. The researcher presented some examples of large cardinals and explained some of their applications to other areas of mathematics, where they have been particularly important in solving prominent open problems.
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The ICMAT hosts a thematic program dedicated to functional analysis
From 1 April to 15 June, the ICMAT is hosting "Lattice Structures in Analysis and Applications," a research program that includes three minicourses, three thematic weeks, a workshop, and seminars focused on so-called Banach lattices. This object was born with the purpose of understanding the structure of function spaces, taking into account that they are ordered spaces, a fundamental aspect of many classical function spaces.
Reading group to understand the latest advancements in large language models
From 9 April to 14 May, “Introducing Large Language Models” is taking place, a reading group focusing on large language models (LLMs), the foundation of generative text artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT. The five sessions, led by various specialists, will serve as a forum to comprehend the latest advancements within LLMs. These sessions take place alternately at the ICMAT and CUNEF University venues, the organizing institutions.
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New members at ICMAT
In April 2024, the following people have joined the Institute:
- Daniel Macías has joined the Institute as a permanent CSIC researcher.
- Alberto Salguero is a new postdoctoral researcher.
- Liu Zhen-Chuan is a new postdoctoral researcher.
Currently visiting ICMAT
- Ignacio Cirac (Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics), until 10/05/2024
- Lukas Liehr (University of Vienna), until 10/05/2024
- Martin Rathmair (University of Vienna), until 11/05/2024
- Pedram Hekmati (University of Auckland), until 11/05/2024
- Marco Badran (ETH Zürich), until 11/05/2024
- Gerard Freixas (École Polytechnique Paris), until 12/05/2024
- Benjamin Pineau (University of California Berkeley), until 12/05/2024
- Vladimir Troitsky (University of Alberta), until 25/05/2024
- Loic Davalo (École normale supérieure de Lyon), until 15/05/2024
- Tomasz Szczepanski (University of Alberta), until 26/05/2024
- Levgen Bilokopytov (University of Alberta), until 31//05/2024
- Charles Junior Valero (University of Toronto), until 01/06/2024
- Mitchell Taylor (ETH Zurich), until 04/06/2024
- Federico Giust (GNSAGA, University of Florence), until 14/06/2024
- Nuria Campillo (CIB-CSIC), until 30/06/2024
- Pablo Cembellín Mazas (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), until 30/06/2024
- David Muñoz Lahoz (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid), until 30/06/2024
- Roi Naveiro Flores (CUNEF University), until 30/06/2024
- Óscar Domínguez (CUNEF University), until 31/07/2024
- Zamurat Ayobami Adegboye (Institute of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, IMSP-UAC, Dangbo, Benin), until 27/08/2024
- Víctor Manuel Jiménez Morales (UNED), until 31/08/2024
- Andoni de Arriba de La Hera (UNED), until 31/12/2024
- Andrés Julián Moreno Ospina (UNICAMP), until 28/02/2025
- Liangchen Zou (University of Science and Technology of China), until 15/05/2025
You have more information about the people who are visiting ICMAT here.
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- Advanced mini-courses,addressed to PhD students and interested researchers:
13,14, 16 & 17/05/2024, 11:30-13:00, "Abstract order theory (dates to be determined)", Eugene Bilokopytov (University of Alberta)
14, 16 & 17/05/2024, 10:00-11:00, "Tensor products of vector lattices (dates to be determined)", Vladimir Troitsky (University of Alberta)
4 & 6/ 06/2024, 10:00-13:30: "Extrapolation in function spaces", María Jesús Carro (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
- Focus weeks with a special emphasis on discussing open problems in the intersection of different areas:
6-10/05/2024. Phase retrieval in function spaces
13-17/05/2024. Vector lattices and ordered structures
27-31/05/2024. Interactions with descriptive set theory
- 20-24/05/2024. Workshop on Banach spaces and Banach lattices
- 14/05/2024. Session 5: Bayes and LLMs. The security of LLMs
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SO Master Program, for Master's students in the academic year 2024/2025. ICMAT offers 15 research scholarships aimed at students enrolled in official Master's programs in the academic year 2024-2025 with an interest in starting a research career. The selected individuals will work (less than 20 hours per week) for one year with a permanent researcher at ICMAT. The amount of each scholarship is 10,000 euros, distributed over 10 monthly installments. The duration of each scholarship is 10 months, from October 2024 to July 2025.
Deadline: 1/06/2024.
JAE Intro ICU 2024. Research Introduction Scholarships for university students with high academic performance levels in various research centers of the CSIC, including ICMAT.
Deadline (ICMAT): 31/05/2024.
JAE School of Mathematics 2024. The JAE School is aimed at undergraduate and master's students interested in research in mathematics and its applications. The classes, where research staff provide introductions to topics of great current interest, take place from June 24th to July 5th, Monday through Friday.
Deadline: 31/05/2024.
CAMINO CSIC Mentorship Program. Professionals from both the public and private sectors in all fields of knowledge participate voluntarily in this mentorship program each edition. Its main objective is to promote the career development and professional opportunities of predoctoral researchers who are conducting their thesis at the CSIC.
Deadline (for mentor and mentee registration): 15/05/2024.
ERC Proof of Concept Grant 2024 (ERC-2024-POC). Funding for principal investigators who already have projects financed by the ERC, aimed at enhancing the innovative potential of the outcomes derived from those projects.
Deadline: 17/09/2024.
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ICMAT in the media
 'Café y Teoremas', ICMAT section in El País newspaper:
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Keep in touch
Have we forgotten anything? Do you want to add any news, visit or upcoming activity? Please, do not hesitate to write us at communication@icmat.es and we will include the information in the next newsletter.
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